STUDY POWERPOINT for AMERICAN MODERN LITERATURE CLASS

TRUE / FALSE

Eliot is important for his literary

criticism as well as his writing.

God refrains from calling his

creation good until after he creates man.

“The Creation” employs

personification.

God made the sun by rolling light up into a

ball.

Sandburg presents a

positive picture of “Chicago.”

The beginning and ending of

“Chicago” repeat thus lending unity

to the poem.

Williams attempted to present actual

American speech in his verse.

“In the Station of the Metro” is an imagist poem.

Ezra Pound’s poetry had little

or no influence on other poets.

The word apparition in his

poem has several meanings.

After Auden’s move to the United

States his thoughts became primarily

religious.

Millay is considered to be the master of

the sonnet.

After graduation from college Millay

adopted a bohemian lifestyle.

Millay didn’t begin writing poetry until

her later years.

The speaker in “Dolor” hates the

lack of order in public institutions.

Roethke was awarded multiple

prizes for his poetry.

Roethke hated people who imitate

other authors.

Ransom fought for an industrialized

South.

Ransom founded the Kenyon Review.

Frost’s poetry is primarily

concerned with nature.

SHORT ANSWER

According to “The Creation,” why did

God make the world?

What is significant about “alien people

clutching their gods” in “Journey

of the Magi?”

How do the Magi spend the night because of inn

situations?

What does the headline, r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-

g-rmean when it says the

reader must be a grasshopper himself?

In “somewhere i have never travelled,” what contrasting actions does the author say his beloved can make him

do?

What figurative expression does Chicago employ as a

whole?

Between coming and moving on, what other

actions does the fog employ?

“Fog” compares fog to what?

Williams believed that meaning could only be

found in what?

Williams believed that meaning could only be

found in what?

In “The Station of the Metro” what is the Metro?

Pound is a major force behind what movement?

What is the object of satire in “The Unknown Citizen?”

In Sonnet XXVI what is the focus of the end of the

poem?

“Dolor” refers to the endless duplication of what two

things?

What poem first brought Millay national attention?

What color characterizes the product of the environment

described in Dolor?

What aspect of Roethke’s background influenced the

setting for his poem, “Dolor?”

What is another name for the Southern Agrarians, the

group Ransom led at Vanderbilt University?

In “Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening,” why can’t the author stay too

long?

What is the source of the speaker’s disappointment in

“The Road Not Taken?”

What does the last stanza of “Miniver Cheevy” reveal

about his wasted life?

From what activity does Miniver Cheevy have to

rest?

Multiple Choice

What influences hinder spiritual interest in “The Journey of the Magi?”

In “The Journey of the Magi,” what do the three

trees symbolize?

Be sure to study all of the Poet questions on your

study sheet. They will each be multiple choice

questions.

According to “The Creation,” what causes light to come

forth?

In order to understand the grasshopper poem, what

must be ignored?

“somewhere i have never travelled” features what

central metaphor?

What is the main focus in “somewhere i have never

travelled?”

What does “Chicago” compare the city to?

What is the tone of “Chicago” in the last stanza?

In “Chicago” word choices seem to emphasize ___.

How are “Poem” and “Red Wheelbarrow” similar?

“Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter” seems to focus

on what comparison?

“Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter” presents

information from whose perspective?

In “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” repetition

in the last two lines emphasizes what?

In “Stopping by Woods on aSnowy Evening,” the

speaker stops to do what?

In “The Road Not Taken,” why does the speaker

pause?

Why is Miniver Cheevy’s love for the Medici ironic?

In “Miniver Cheevy” who thinks of Miniver as child of

scorn?

What word best describes Miniver Cheevy?

ESSAY: Choose one poem that we have read and

either compare or contrast it with a biblical view of the topic using three examples.